• Neurologist · Mar 2012

    Case Reports

    Bilateral femoral neuropathy after massive toxic ingestion in a suicide attempt.

    • Stéphane Mathis, Foucaud du Boisguéheneuc, Gaëlle Godenèche, Solène Ansquer, and Jean-Philippe Neau.
    • Department of Neurology, CHU Poitiers, University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France. s.mathis@chu-poitiers.fr
    • Neurologist. 2012 Mar 1;18(2):70-2.

    IntroductionBilateral femoral nerve injury can occur after various surgical and nonsurgical processes, but has rarely been reported.Case ReportWe describe a case of bilateral femoral neuropathy after a suicide attempt in a 41-year-old woman. We suggest a stretch mechanism to explain this observation. We also discuss the other causes of bilateral nerve palsy, usually secondary to a compressive injury, with a review of the medical literature.ConclusionsThe patient reported is the first in the literature to have suffered from bilateral femoral nerve palsy after a suicide attempt. Half of the reported cases are secondary to a surgical process (particularly abdominopelvic surgery). If a compressive origin is most frequent, a stretch mechanism may at times explain a bilateral femoral neuropathy.

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